The European Community (EC) recently commissioned a study of the impact of potential appliance standards on electricity consumption in the twelve EC nations. This study looks at refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. The impact of minimum efficiency standards...

The Stock Market is a complex self-interacting system, characterized by an intermittent behavior. Periods of high activity alternate with periods of relative calm. In the present work we investigate empirically about the possibility that the market is in a self-organized critical state (SOC). A...

Quantification of uncertainty in predictions of nuclear waste repository performance is a requirement of Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations governing the licensing of proposed geologic repositories for high-level radioactive waste disposal. One of the major uncertainties in these...

Though customer relationship management (CRM) has become a top priority in both practice and research, limited work has addressed CRM as it applies to contractual exchanges, such as those between customers of a cable service provider that offers different service packages. In this dissertation,...

There are many instances in marketing in which researchers do not observe the individual behavior of consumers (e.g., individual choices, coupon availability and coupon usage). However, the researcher may have aggregate information such as market shares and number of redeemed coupons (in total)....

Recurrent events are frequently observed in biomedical studies, and often more than one type of event is of interest. Follow-up time may be censored due to loss to follow-up or administrative censoring. We propose a class of semi-parametric marginal means/rates models, with a general relative...